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 Somalia
in need of U.N. Security Council- This past Wednesday the U.N. Security Council authorized help to Somalia's government in their struggle against the Islamic militia. The U.N. Security Council is in hopes of restoring some kind of peace and finding new ways to avoid conflict in the future. African members of the Security Council who are participating in the help against the Islamic militia are also partially lifting the arms embargo so Somalia will be able to be supplied with military equipment and proper training. There have been many problems with the U.N. Security Council taking what some call sides in this effort to help Somalia. Many are also nervous that if this doesn't stop the conflict will grow larger and spread across the region. Somalia's UN ambassador, Idd Bedel Mohamed expressed how grateful he is and thanked the U.S. and the U.S. Ambassador John Bolton for taking the step in deploying a force. Somalia's government has agreed to negotiate with Islam if only they would seize the fight to take over the country. Many people of Somalia are in hope that their country will not become a battleground for many like Ethiopia and Eritrea. At this time there are two-thousand Eritrea inside Somali who are supporting the Islamic militia. People of the Islamic government made a statement Thursday that if foreign peacekeepers stay in Somalia that it will just start more of a war. The spokesperson for the Islamic government also stated that they believe with more sophisticated weapons brought in there will be a higher number of deaths. With this authorization a seven-nation East African group called the IGAD and the African Union will be sent in to start a protection and training mission in Somalia for six months. |
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on the rise in the suburbs-In a recent study released by the Brookings Institution today, it was discovered that the "suburban poor" outnumbered the "inner-city poor" for the first time last year. More than 12 million suburban residents lived in poverty according to the study. Research director at the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program, Alan Berube who also co-wrote the report for Brookings Institute, listed some reasons for an increase in suburban poverty: -Suburbs are adding people much faster than cities, making it inevitable that the number of poor people living in suburbs would eventually surpass those living in cities. -The poverty rate in large cities (18.8 percent) is still higher than it is in the suburbs (9.4 percent). But the overall number of people living in poverty is higher in the suburbs in part because of population growth. -America's suburbs are becoming more diverse, racially and economically. "There's poverty really everywhere in metropolitan areas because there are low-wage jobs everywhere," Berube said. -Recent immigrants are increasingly bypassing cities and moving directly to suburbs, especially in the South and West. Those immigrants, on average, have lower incomes than people born in the United States. Research Analyst Elizabeth Kneebone and Berube studied the poverty figures for the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas, measuring the changes from 1999-2005. In 2005 the federal government defined the poverty level for a family of three as an income of $15,577. The suburb of McAllen, Texas, was rated the suburb with the highest poverty rate last year at 43.9 percent compared to the city with the highest poverty rate, Cleveland, at 32.4 percent. |
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Cristal's Blog: Are you sleeping? Jimi's Blog: Columbia Cartels have inside guys. Patricia's Blog: First Snow Fall. |
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| HEALTH AWARENESS |
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A recent study shows that the use of antidepressants increases the risk of suicide in young adults. In a recent study of 100,000 participants it was shown that those under the age of 25 on antidepressants were at a higher risk for suicide or suicidal tendencies. |
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An interesting week in space exploration
Scientists reported Wednesday that there are new photographs
from space that suggest that water flows occasionally on the
surface of Mars, raising the possibility that the planet could
hold life. |
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Robert Panza interviews Mass Comm Professor Heather Tullio. |
| SPORTS STUFF |
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Tony Catinella explains why Mark McGwire should be inducted into the 2007 Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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